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[OSTY <lerb@redrose.net>]

Thanks for the exspaination i enjoyed the knowledge.


At 02:24 PM 10/3/96 +0000, you wrote:
>> From:          Wes Shew <schumi@vcn.bc.ca>
>> Subject:       Re: New Page New Page New Page....
>> To:            Jeremy Bromley <jbromley@mail.enterprise.net>
>> Cc:            corrado-l@teleport.com, scirocco-l@privateI.com,
>>                Wes Shew <schumi@vcn.bc.ca>
>
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Jeremy Bromley wrote:
>> 
>> > P.S. If any UK readers are interested, my G60 (Red '91 H-Reg 85k 
>> 
>> I've noticed british car ads always list the " _-reg " with a used car. Is 
>> this the first letter of the license plate? Does the original license 
>> plate stay with the car every time it is resold? I've heard people pay 
>> big money at auctions for certain letter plates, what makes them so 
>> precious? In America you get a new plate every time a car has a new 
>> owner. And if you want a personalized plate you just apply for one and pay 
>> $50+/- . Lemme no
>
>It's a funny ol' game over here in the UK. When a new car is 
>purchased it is given a new registration plate which it (generally) 
>keeps for life. Currently this starts with a yearly prefix (which 
>runs from August-July) H is 1990-1991, J 1991-92, K 92-93 etc. etc., 
>you then get three numbers, and then three letters which give a 
>general impression of which county the car was first registered in. 
>My Corrado has H for 1990-91 (June 91), 748 which is just the 
>sequential number and YYU which means it came from Central London. 
>The Scirocco is A (1984) 259 (sequential number) and UYV (again 
>Central London. What you sometimes find is that around certain areas 
>you find the same last letters appearing again and again. (Two 
>"favourites" around where I live are DRY and GAY (ho-hum)) 
>However, now for the complicated bit. There are some important 
>changes recently (in the last three or so years) detailed below.
>1. Before  (erm, has to work this one out... 1983, I think) the Prefixes 
>were suffices, so you just reverse everything. Therefore my Land-Rover, 
>a 1974 Series III, has the 
>registration PPG 433 L. PPG (I think) is from Lincolnshire, 433 
>(sequential number again) and L (1973-74). To get you even more in a 
>tizzy so far as older classic cars go, between A and E registration 
>the years ran from January to January, with E starting in Jan (can't 
>be bothered to work this one out, I think it was 1967) and finishing 
>in July of that year. So E registration ones are the rarest.
>2. Now for another difficult bit. Before all these suffixes and 
>pre-fixes came along, we just had letters (area codes) and numbers 
>(sequential), usually the letters coming first, but not always. So 
>any car made before 1963 (? I think) just had letters and numbers on 
>them.
>To give some idea of how the big-money side of things came about, 
>first you have to understand that, here in the UK, there is only one 
>type of plate, so you don't get London Plates, or Liverpool plates 
>etc. (well, not obviously) and so only 1 person in the country can 
>have any registration. Secondly, all plates have to follow these 
>strict boundaries. It's got to be either  L 000 LLL (L-Letter 
>0-Number), LLL 000 L, LLL 000,  or 000 LLL. You getting the picture 
>now....?
>So if you wanted to have your plate spell, WES'S, you'd have to have 
>something like WES 5 (probably about UKP2,000), and put a little mark 
>on the plate (it's illegal to put apostrophes in), or say WES 1, 
>which would probably set you back something like UKP5,000, and then 
>only if you could find it! 
>The problems to face are that there are only a limited number of 
>plates around, and not all numbers have been issued, or are even 
>available. For instance, a famous British Comedian (can't remember 
>who) has got registration COM1C, but a famous British Magician could 
>not get MAG1C as it was never issued.
>
>Tricks of the trade, so to speak are to  mess around with the spacing 
>of the numbers and letters. So, for 
>example, the next Corrado I'm buying has the registraion A 60 VW 
>(which, as it's a G60, seems pretty smart, and probably worth approx 
>UKP 1,500). This is made up of A 6 OVW, but spaced wrongly.  Although 
>this is illegal, it is reasonably well tolerated in this country, one 
>of the other guys in the Corrado Club has the registraion B16 GGO, 
>but the way he has put it it comes out as BIG G60. He paid about £500 
>for this. These are "cheap" examples, at the other end of the scale, 
>I recently saw advertised the registration 1VVV (about as close you 
>can get to 1 VW) for UKP5,000, and a friend's grandfather has the 
>registration 1 DAY for which he has been offered a six-figure sum, 
>but stolidly refuses to part with (it's currently on a Mercedes 190 
>by the way).
>I hope this hasn't confused anybody too-much. Bit of a rambling 
>explanation, but all good fun. So, now you might understand why 
>plates are so rare and expensive here in the UK.
>Jeremy R. Bromley (Events Manager, Corrado Club of G.B.)
>                                      jbromley@enterprise.net
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>-1992 Corrado G60 (AMD chip, VW Motorsport Pulley, Aqua Blue)
>--1985 Scirocco Storm (1.9 155bhp, Cosmos Blue)--------------
>---1973 Land Rover S.III 88" (0-60? Apparently!, Pearl blue)-
>----1981 Mini 1000 (Girlfriend's shed, Black)----------------
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